Empower

We empower young women to have productive futures through holistic, gender specific programs, educations and experiences that are unique to young women.

Spiritual Strength

Bible teachings will help each young woman recognize their individual beauty and unique gifts. We focus on God’s love.

Positive Self- Esteem

Nuturing Hearts works to create a positive self-esteem in girls, helping them to recognize and celebrate their Inner and Outer Beauty.

Motivation & Role Models

Through the use of motivational speaking and role models, Nuturing Hearts works to educate young girls on how to overcome life's obstacles.

Who Are We

Nurturing Hearts is a non-profit organization that provides supportive leadership, motivation and life skills, which furnish and prepare girls 10-18 for a bright and positive future.
  • We empower young women to have productive futures through holistic, gender specific programs, educations and experiences that are unique to young women.
  • Bible teachings will help each young woman recognize their individual beauty and unique gifts. We focus on God’s love.
  • Nuturing Hearts works to create a positive self-esteem in girls, helping them to recognize and celebrate their Inner and Outer Beauty.
  • Through the use of motivational speaking and role models, Nuturing Hearts works to educate young girls on how to overcome life's obstacles.
  • Nurturing Hearts is a non-profit organization that provides supportive leadership, motivation and life skills, which furnish and prepare girls 10-18 for a bright and positive future.

About Us

Erie Times News

PUBLISHED: DECEMBER 8, 2013 12:01 AM EST UPDATED: DECEMBER 6, 2013 2:09 PM EST

Guest Voice of Shawnta Pulliam: Teach Erie's youth to deal with emotions.

Negative emotions are feelings that we have when someone upsets us, harms us or takes us for granted by disrespecting or abusing who we are or are trying to become. These negative emotions can also emerge when we fall short of our own plans or the expectations of others. While negative emotions may result from situations and people that we have no control over, one of the worst negative emotional reactions is the emotion of fear, because we are reacting negatively to something that may never even occur or exist.

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PUBLISHED: April 7, 2012

WQLN Radio Interview with the CEO of Nurturing Hearts

BY Kim Young - Host of WQLN's "Weekends All Things Erie"

Shawnta Pulliam, the founder of Nuturing Hearts discusses how her organization provides girls from all walks of life with the tools they need to succeed with Kim Young - Host of WQLN's "Weekends All Things Erie"

 

PUBLISHED: OCTOBER 13, 2011

Nurturing Hearts helps Erie girls stay on track

BY DAVID BRUCE, Erie Times-News 
david.bruce@timesnews.com

Dominique Kafondo, Nurturing Hearts StudentDominique Kafando struggled to stay in school just 12 months ago.  The Central Career and Technical School student had D's and F's on her report card, and had been assigned to Central's alternative-education school.  "I was missing a lot of classes," said Kafando, 18. "I didn't care much about school." A teacher referred Kafando to Nurturing Hearts, a local nonprofit organization that provides leadership and life skills for teenage girls.

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